This is an attempt to create a timeline or simple wristwatch history for everyone to be able to use to help understand how watches have developed. If you have any corrections or additions please email them for our consideration. Thanks.

1571 The Earl of Leicester presents Queen Elizabeth I with a small watch fastened onto a bracelet.

1735 Blancpain founded.1737 Abraham Favre registers the firm Favre (later to be come Favre-Leuba)1738 Jaquet Droz founded.1755 Vacheron founded.1772 John Harrison makes a watch that, when tested over ten weeks, lost an average of one third of one second per day.1775 Breguet founded.